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Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 10:10:09 -0800 (PST)
From: Adam Nealis <adamnealis@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Max size of a process in FreeBSD.
To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>,
	Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc: Adam Nealis <adamnealis@yahoo.co.uk>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
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--- Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> wrote:
> Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> writes:
> > It's limited to MAXDSIZ (max data size).
> 
> Not quite - the size of the data segment is limited to the value of
> 'limits -d', which starts out at DFLDSIZ and cannot be larger than
> MAXDSIZ.  Likewise, the size of the stack is limited to the value of
> 'limits -s', which cannot be larger that MAXSSIZ.  I don't think
> there's a limit on text size (other than "total address space minus
> kernel address space"), but a very large text segment will obviously
> limit the size of the data and stack segments.
> 
> >                                           You can raise this up to 2GB or
> > so, but you will eventually hit the KVM boundary.  I don't recall what the
> > KVM limit is right now, I thought it was 2GB but I think it was reduced
> > recently ...
> 
> The kernel address space used to be 256 MB in 3.x, but was bumped to 1
> GB before 4.0-RELEASE.  See FAQ list entry 17.15.

Which FAQ is that? The online FAQ at

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/index.html

Only has "funnies" for section 17, and doesn't go up to 17.15.

Adam.

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